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North Korea has at least 13 secret operating bases where the regime is continuing work on its ballistic missile program.

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President Donald Trump says he’s likely to meet the North Korea leader early next year and that he’s in “no rush” to engage in de-nuclearization talks with Pyongyang. (Nov. 7)AP

A photo released by the official North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the state news agency of North Korea, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (R) shaking hands with United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) during their meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Oct. 7 October 2018.(Photo: KCNA, EPA-EFE)

WASHINGTON – North Korea has at least 13 secret operating bases where the regime is continuing work on its ballistic missile program, a sign Kim Jong Un is not winding down his country’s nuclear program despite public promises touted by the Trump administration.

The CSIS experts said that North Korea’s highly publicized move to decommission a satellite launch facility gained a flurry of positive media attention. But that move “obscures the military threat to U.S. forces and South Korea from this and other undeclared ballistic missile bases.”

CSIS experts used satellite images to locate the undeclared military bases, which they said could be used for “for all classes” of ballistic missiles, including intercontinental missiles.

The findings, first reported by the New York Times, stand in stark contrast to President Donald Trump’s declaration that North Korea no longer represents a nuclear threat and that he has made progress is persuading Kim to declare and relinquish his nuclear arsenal.

The new report emphasizes that the hidden bases are not launch facilities. However, they are “permanent facilities that contain a unit’s headquarters, barracks, housing, support, maintenance, and storage facilities,” the report says.

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